Since COVID, I rarely carry cash, nor do the people I know and work with. It doesn't matter if pennies aren't minted anymore, because hardly anyone is carrying or using them. Practically everything is cashless.

Not where I live and travel or from what I see.

Hell, I love to carry and use cash for most everything I can that isn't online....I use cash in meatspace.

Personally, I'd be in favor of ending the Senate's representation of each state, two senators. It makes no sense for Wyoming, with half a million people, to have two votes, while California, with forty million people, has two votes.

No...because we are the United STATES of America.

Every state is equal...that's the way it was set up....and even today, in general you are a citizen of your state first....and citizen of the country second...

This compromise along with the Electoral College for presidential elections help keep that balance....and more populous states can't run roughshod over the less populous states.

How many cashiers deal with actual currency anymore? Most customers, including elderly ones, use a card.

Wow...where do you live where they no longer use cash and only use credit cards?

I tend to still carry and use cash whenever I can....and I see it being used quite often when out, especially the grocery store, or gas/convenience store....

Also, I like to tip in cash when dining out....in the past that was a way to keep the server from having to pay so much tax on it....but looks like new legislation is about to get rid of tax on tips....

So, if I start selling glasses/hats with superbright IR lamps, I'll get rich?

If you're talking about these items for use as a 'privacy' type shield from the prevalence of cameras....I'd think there's be a HUGE market for that already with all the cameras up everywhere!!!

Hell if it worked I'd be a customer.....I've long wanted a bright array of IR lamps to put around my license plate holder to blow out traffic cameras....

It is getting soon where we need to have the "Scramble Suit" set up like in A Scanner Darkly....

Lest we forget the importance of NOT being seen....

I saw the Google AI android glasses presentation yesterday ....it was pretty smart of them pairing up with Warby Parker and some other glasses place, has to do something with "monsters".....

I wonder if Apple will do the actual frames with an actual frames company...so as to keep them on the stylish end of things?

I figure the tech is good enough here to dip a toe in the water. I'll see what the google offering looks like on release....and then wait for the Apple one...and maybe I'll play with that.

However, if Apple comes out with a new Vision that is slightly lighter, nixes the stupid external "eyes" thing...I might opt for that, as that I'd love to zone out to immersive movies on flights...and on trips have multiple large computer screens when working in the hotel, etc....

But the glasses look interesting in lieu of that if the Vision offering isn't what I would want...

Apple has always been at it's best when it's refining existing stuff, or exploring new areas.

But just working on smart glasses now and abandoning something unique like an AI watch, feels a bit more like they are chasing what Meta is doing, rather than refining anything.

I guess we'll get a better idea of what is really going on at WWDC as new directions are unveiled.

Not that I'd want to go to Russia anytime in the foreseeable future....but I think if I did, I'd not take a smart phone...only maybe a flip phone at most?

Maybe just buy one when you get there?

This device seems like it's just another iteration of the home devices like the Echo that have had middling success.

What is this going to do to distinguish itself? Tel you the weather before you even ask?

Ives is cool and all but he's not a god, he can't change fundamental demand.

Yeah that was my first thought- a general loss of complexity and subtlety in the English language.

Kids these days... Back in my day, we'd punch arson locations into into our TomToms and have Homer Simpson's voice give us there.

Bah...

Back in my day, we'd just look up the address in the phone book and use our general knowledge of where everything in the city was, or as last resort, find a paper map to look at....

Yeah you can't pay me enough to get Lasik. I'm sure it's awesome, some family members have done it, but no way. Similarly, contacts skeeve me out. If they become the defacto AR optics, I'll find a way to endure, but for absolutely nothing short of that will I put them in my eyes.

Glasses are fine by me. They've stopped things from hitting my eyes, which is already worth the price of admission. ,

Just wait awhile, till you need cataract surgery...it will solve you problems....after that toss your glasses away or at least any but dime store "readers" for up close....

I grew up not being able to see the broad side of a barn standing 2 feet from it...now? No glasses needed for driving, daily life.....except reading close up, and then the said readers...

I'd never have gotten lasik, but the side effects of the cataract surgery have been great.

I'm seeing articles and news saying that EV sales are still slowing in the US, if true...Honda slowing down on this would be a good thing.

And EV mandates in the US will soon be a thing of the past...so, the market will have to be the savior of EV adoption, at least in the near term future...

Beyond the brakes lasting longer, there is a very practical aspect to far less brake dust that is really nice - if you ever clean your wheels these would result in a LOT less work. I used to have a car with white wheels and even just minimal driving would get them pretty dirty.

Can these brakes still be painted a bright neon color that screams out through the wheel spokes and clashes with the car's body paint?

Hey man, it's greenTELL, not greenhide. Hells yes it will be visible from the moon.